Alex Carpenter is an Australian-born artist and researcher living in New York City. He has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist playing guitar, keyboard and electric zither through a multi-amp and delay network he calls the Live Audio Delay System. Alex has also independently produced and coordinated several large-scale ensemble performance events under the moniker Music of Transparent Means.
Music of Transparent Means was Alex's chief [...]

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Alex Carpenter

Alex Carpenter is an Australian-born artist and researcher living in New York City. He has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist playing guitar, keyboard and electric zither through a multi-amp and delay network he calls the Live Audio Delay System. Alex has also independently produced and coordinated several large-scale ensemble performance events under the moniker Music of Transparent Means.

Music of Transparent Means was Alex's chief project in Australia from 2002 to 2007, initially providing a platform for his meticulously-tuned wineglass inventions, then later incorporating instruments such as prepared guitars, woodwind, strings, percussion and brass, and featuring as many as 21 performers at a single time.

Alex's most recent performance activity has centered on his own Live Video Delay System, a visual extension of the audio system which employs multiple cameras and extreme color isolation to facilitate a unique live layering of laser drawings. The system was first tested at New York's MELA Foundation in 2009, and continues to be shown in performance and on screen internationally.

Alex has performed alongside artists such as Francisco Lopez (Madrid), Will Guthrie (Melbourne), Kyle Bobby Dunn and Richard Lainhart (NYC), at venues such as Diapason, Issue Project Room, Pianos, LMAKProjects, The Tank and Microscope Gallery. He has also produced several CD and DVD releases on his own label, Vanished Records.